Re: st: long variable names from spss

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

Jim Rosenthal wrote:



> Does anyone know whether there is an easy way to transfer long variable
> names (names longer than 8 characters) to  STATA from SPSS?
Stat/Transfer version eight supports SPSS long variable names.  Long 
variable names are written to Stata version seven or higher.  The only 
reason I can surmise that they are not being transferred into your Stata 
file is that the Stata version is set to something earlier.  You can check 
this by looking at the text to the right of the output file type selection 
control or the "Stata Version" option on the third options tab.

You can check to see if the variable names are being read properly by 
viewing them on the "Variables" tab.

If you still having difficulty, please contact me directly via e-mail.

Best,

Steve





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